Let’s do another list here in #985 — useful phrases from the same videos that you can learn and start using right away when you speak French. The links take you back to the original posts so you can listen again if you want.

Why did the speaker say it in this video? She used it because she was listing all the things that can be done in Québec in the winter (marcher, ramer, glisser, etc.) and that hockey is like a religion, so it was a playful way of telling herself (or ourselves) to calm down with all that. She also said it because it provided the opportunity to inject a Québécois expression into the ad for flavour.

The Usito dictionary defines pompon (or pompom in English) as: petite boule de fils, généralement de laine ou de soie, qui sert d’ornement, and gives an example of use: une tuque à pompon (or a winter hat with a ball on the tip; that’s why we see an image of a tuque with a shaking pompom right when the speaker uses the expression).

The Wiktionnaire page for se calmer le pompon gives us two examples of use: